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Compendium of dengue cases from 2013 to 2017, Dryad, Dataset

June 2021

DOI:10.5061/dryad.9w0vt4bfv

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Alisa Aliaga-Samanez

Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement (INRAE)

Marina Cobos-Mayo

University of Malaga

Marina Segura Moreno

Centro vacunación internacional

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Dataset with the occurrences of dengue cases from 2013 to 2017. The following information is provided: year, continent, country, admi 1 (largest subnational administrative unit in the country), admi 2 (second largest subnational administrative unit in the country: province, district, municipality or canton), latitude, longitude, and location. The location indicates whether coordinates refer to precise localities or to polygon centroids. In the latter case, only polygons with around 7,774-km2-size area or less were considered. Citation: Aliaga-Samanez, Alisa et al. (2021), Compendium of dengue cases from 2013 to 2017, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9w0vt4bfv

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